Example sentences of "[verb] home [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On may 3 it had caused sufficient problems to be pushed home on the last train of the day from Wroxham . |
| 2 | Her parents travelled home in the first week of October leaving her with fields enriched by the presence of a few dozen sheep and enough advice to see her through the cow 's first calving and the sow 's first litter . |
| 3 | ‘ Now we 're going home for the first proper Christmas Laura has ever had , ’ said Fran . |
| 4 | But in a frantic third period , Kevin Conway fired home in the third minute to equalise Wojciech Tkacz 's first period opener . |
| 5 | Having to get up very early in the mornings he tended to be in bed by the time she arrived home on the last bus from Bath . |
| 6 | Price powered home on the first count with 465 first preference votes , but Beth mustered only 11 . |
| 7 | Because it is hard to expel asylum-seekers once they have arrived , potential host countries make it difficult for refugees to leave home in the first place . |
| 8 | In early July the waiting was broken by the excitement of Maggie coming home for the first time since she had left for London . |
| 9 | His father had been ‘ under the weather , since July , and Lewis was half-aware that he might be coming home for the last time . |
| 10 | The message of the first oil shock was driven home by the second , when the Iranian revolution caused a further doubling of world crude prices . |
| 11 | ‘ Go home on the first flight out of here . |
| 12 | She went home for the first time after twelve weeks … but she 's been in and out of the unit constantly ever since . |
| 13 | ‘ Sadly , it seems that some young people find it difficult to adjust when they leave home for the first time . ’ |
| 14 | God needs his nourishment , his daily fix of souls as by the million every day we drop off the perch , and so Bernard and Apricot — renamed Ellen as a condition of marriage — if they 're to do God 's will , must reproduce till the cows come home , though nowadays of course the cows never leave home in the first place , they 're linked up permanently to milking machines . |
| 15 | Page had been forced into the play-off after dropping a shot at the ninth , his last hole , but edged home at the second extra hole with a par three after Maguire 's ball had landed in heavy rough at the back of the green . |
| 16 | Many entrants to nursing will be leaving home for the first time or changing their location . |
| 17 | And so it was that on a beautiful morning in May , two to three years after her return from Trantridge , Tess Durbeyfield left home for the second time . |
| 18 | For the married couples the heartache would be centred round their children going off to boarding school , especially when they left home for the first time . |
| 19 | And when I left home for the first time , it suddenly occurred to me that there was no reason why I should n't change it . |
| 20 | The last date was significant ; it was the Monday following the Sunday on which Inez left home for the last time . |
| 21 | You go to the most wonderful places , you STAND in Soweto outside Nelson Mandela 's little house and watch him come home for the first time in 25 years . |